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Cake day: August 5th, 2026
  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubtomemes@lemmy.world•roger rogerEnglish
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    22 days ago

    The answer is: gen AI slop.

    However, the obsession with bi-pedal robots is creepy and weird.

    I watched someone on YouTube talking about it but can’t remember the channel.

    Basically, there is no single task for which bipedal is the best format, it’s only suitable for the range of tasks humans can perform. However, we just don’t have the tech to make that format viable. As in, they can’t do the dishes or clean the bathroom or take out the trash.

    Demonstrations of bots doing those things are in tightly controlled environments with loads of programmed parameters.

    Its appealing because everyone wants a humanoid to order around, but that’s about it.

  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubOPtomemes@lemmy.world•Hi, are you a chat bot ?English
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    27 days ago

    It depends on the software / configuration / script.

    In any sane set up, if the user fails to navigate the menu n times you get dumped to an operator. 0 or * or # aren’t special hacks, you just need invalid navigation.

    I imagine what you have noticed is that increasingly there just isn’t an operator to talk to, or at least the org you’re calling really doesnt want to talk to you, so this kind of navigation failure just dumps you back to the start or something.

  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubOPtomemes@lemmy.world•Hi, are you a chat bot ?English
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    27 days ago

    I had a call from a scammer using a chat bot or voice generator?

    Weirdly I was sure I could hear someone typing. I mean it would be trivial to set things up so the victim couldn’t hear that.

    Regardless, it just didn’t sound like a human. I mean it was good but it was definitely in the uncanny valley.

    Weirdly, it was obviously intended for victims to think it was human, but then at the end it said “I’m just going to transfer you to a human operator now”, and hung up.